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The EWEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,945 14168 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 385 11836 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1560 -2332 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 313 4999 0.002 19
United Kingdom 2,003 2951 0.004 44
Top States for EWEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 180 10407 0.001 11
New York 145 13405 0.001 8
Illinois 131 10258 0.001 11
California 126 19209 0.000 4
New Jersey 101 9954 0.001 12
Top States for EWEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 34 4009 0.004 38
Vermont 19 4847 0.003 31
Connecticut 94 5007 0.003 28
Wyoming 11 6754 0.002 22
Kentucky 72 5734 0.002 18

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EWEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EWEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EWEN in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EWEN by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EWEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EWEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EWEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EWEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 101 5.19
White (Hispanic) 48 2.47
Mixed Race 20 1.03
White (Caucasian) 1,754 90.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EWEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of EWEN in historical publications

EWEN. EWENS. See Ewing.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EWEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EWEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EWEN

The following words are slight variants of EWEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.